~ A forest garden & Seed collective

may we always hear the whisper of wings !

Its been six years since we moved into this area & we have seen & observed many of our co-residents on the farm, while going for long long walks with our dogs & also while driving towards the farm.

Some of them we have a visual record, some we have a audio/video record, some we have just seen & enjoyed their presence & not bothered to take out our cameras… you know sometimes birds also are very wary of the paparazzi !!

So, here is the list of the birds seen in & around the farm. Actually a bird census or a bird count from “Paabeghat to Madheghat” !

1. Little Cormorant

2. Little Egret

3. Cattle Egret

4. Grey Heron

5. Black Necked Stork

6. Glossy Ibis

7. Spot billed Duck

8. Oriental Honey Buzzard

9. Black shouldered Kite

10. Black Kites

11. Brahminy Kites

12. White Backed Vultures

13. Crested Serpent Eagle

14. Short Toed Snake Eagle

15. Shikra

16. Changeable Hawk Eagle

17. Kestrel

18. Painted Francolin

19. Common Quails

20. Jungle Fowl

21. Peafowls

22. White Breasted Water hen

23. Red Wattled Lapwing

24. Sandpiper

25. Spotted Dove

26. Parakeets

27. Pied Crested Cuckoo

28. Caucal

29. Spotted Owlet

30. Jungle Nightjar

31. Small Blue Kingfisher

32. White Breasted Kingfisher

33. Pied Kingfisher

34. Green Bee eaters

35. Indian Roller

36. Grey Horn bill

37. Coppersmith Barbet

38. Crested Lark

39. Wire tailed Swallow

40. Common Swallow

41. Red rumped Swallow

42. Pied Wagtail

43. Citrine Wagtail

44. Paddyfield Pipit

45. Small Minivet

46. Scarlet Minivet

47. Wood shrike

48. Red vented Bulbul

49. Red whiskered Bulbul

50. Common Iora

51. Bay backed Shrike

52. Magpie Robin

53. Indian Robin

54. Pied Bush chat

55. Slaty headed Scimater Babbler

56. Large Grey Babbler

57. Jungle Babbler

58. Red Throated Flycatcher

59. Purple Sun bird

60. Crested Bunting

61. Red Munia

62. Scaly Breasted Munia

63. Black headed Munia

64. Baya Weaver

65. Brahminy Mynah

66. Common Mynah

67. Black Drongo

68. Golden Oriole

68. Treepie

69. Leaf bird

70. Orange headed Thrush

71. Eurasian Blackbird

72. Fantail

73. Ashy Prinia

74. Redstart

75. Brown Fish Owl

76. Blyth’s reed warbler

77. Woolly Neck Stork

78. Great Hornbill.

79. Black Eagle

80. Coots

As our friend Nikhil always says: “may we always hear the whisper of the wings”